China's foreign relations and the survival of autocracies
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China's foreign relations and the survival of autocracies
(Routledge explorations in development studies)
Routledge, 2015
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Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-217) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Chinese government has frequently been criticized for propping up anti-democratic governments. This book investigates the rise of China as an emerging authoritarian power. By comparing China's bilateral relations to three Asian developing countries - Burma, Cambodia and Mongolia - it examines how China targets specific groups of actors in autocracies versus non-autocracies. It illustrates how the Chinese non-interference policy translates into support for incumbent leaders in autocratic countries and how the Chinese government has thereby profited from exploiting secretive decision making in autocracies to realize its own external interests such as achieving access to natural resources. In a statistical analysis of the patterns of Chinese external cooperation and their impact on the survival of autocratic leaders, the book finds some evidence that China is more likely to target autocracies with economic cooperation. However, only some forms of bilateral interaction are found to increase the prospect of survival for autocratic leaders.
This important contribution to the understanding of both external factors of authoritarian endurance and China's foreign relations, a field of study still lacking systematic investigation, will be of great interest to students and researchers in Development Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations, and International Political Economy.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Supporting Dictators. If so, why and how? 1. What we Know and why we Know so Little 2. Why Autocracies should have an Interest in the Prevalence of Authoritarianism Part 2: External Exploitation: who, how and when? 3. How external exploitation materializes 4. Burma: Neither puppet, nor pawn 5. Cambodia: Rocking in China's soft underbelly 6. Mongolia: Between a rock and a hard place 7. Does China realize its interests? Part 3: Autocratic cooperation? Patterns and consequences 8. Does China target other autocrats? 9. Do China's foreign relations lead to autocratic survival? Part 4: So what? Findings, reflections and conclusions 10. Conclusion
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